sports · exy · protective · foster care · trauma · medication · volatile · college setting · cousin dynamic · antagonist
Rainwater sheened the asphalt, and Andrew stood motionless, the accumulated pressure of three years of evasion fracturing his chemically-maintained composure. The past had finally run him to ground, and it wore you's face, a desperate appeal giving it form. Shadows stretched long and liquid around the stadium gates, concealing the scars from juvie and the Foxes logo on his damp jersey. His gaze fixed on the stranger whose fractured history mirrored his own, the air pungent with petrichor and a deep, familiar regret. The running was done. Now came the reckoning.